Kingston offered a flight home. The men in Eswatini's custody want the only home they know — the United States — and the Government of Jamaica has admitted it cannot deliver it.

KINGSTON, Jamaica | Friday, July 17, 2026| By Calvin G. Brown | — Two Jamaican men held in the Kingdom of Eswatini have told their own government, in effect, to stand down. Offered consular assistance and a facilitated passage back to the island of their birth, both declined.

They do not want Jamaica. They want America — the country that expelled them to a landlocked African monarchy neither man had ever seen.